Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884

Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884
ISBN-10
081420838X
ISBN-13
9780814208380
Category
History
Pages
321
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Author
Gilles Vandal

Description

Vandal (history and political science, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada) analyzes the statistics of nearly 5,000 homicides over an 18-year period, as well as other sources, to provide a picture of the level of physical violence in Louisiana after the Civil War. Some of the themes addressed include rural versus urban patterns of violence; homicides in a gender perspective; and the black response to white violence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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